Ballas-Grove Street feud

The Ballas-Grove Street feud was a gangland feud between the Ballas and the rival Grove Street Families gang that lasted from the 1980s until the 1990s. The rivalry began due to clashes over the crack cocaine influx into the city, with the Grove Street Families killing Ballas-affiliated drug dealers that attempted to sell cocaine on their turf. The rivalry escalated in the late 1980s, when the Ballas took over Inglewood from the Grove Street Families and allied with the Seville Boulevard Families and Temple Drive Families, which split from the GSF. The Grove Street Families engaged in warfare on the streets with the Ballas sets in many forms, including drive-by shootings, shootouts between gang members on sidewalks, and the conquest of neighborhoods by the rival gangs. In 1992, the Grove Street Families took over the whole of the city from the Ballas after nearly being destroyed by the Ballas, which took over Grove Street at one point. The GSF killed Ballas-allied dope pusher and former GSF OG Big Smoke and destroyed his crack den, throwing a wrench in the drug trade. The feud would continue into the late 1990s, however, and the Ballas eventually came on top of the GSF, conquering Grove Street for good in the 2000s.